VegettoEX wrote:So here are some random thoughts I've been having:
We typically learn about any respective upcoming game's theme song a few months before its release. For the original
Raging Blast in 2009, we learned about Hironobu Kageyama's "
Progression" in a
Jump scan that July (the game was released in November, the relatively-consistent time frame for the franchise's major console game releases for years... with the exception of
Burst Limit, which came out in June 2007, though you could argue that
METEOR was the "major" release that year... and speaking of which...). Digging back a couple years earlier, the same thing happened with
Sparking! METEOR -- we learned about "
Super Survivor" in July for the game's October release.
We are heading into September 2010, with
Raging Blast 2 due out in early November. There has not been a single peep about a new song. Any trailer seen for the game so far features some generic guitar rock; trailers for previous games have started featuring the game's theme song at this point along the way in their life cycle.
The wording for
Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans has been pretty vague. I could be entirely wrong, but I would not be surprised to see the feature take the "place" of what would normally be an "opening" to the game -- that is to say, it may auto-play the feature after the initial opening studio credits (and probably have an option to watch it from the regular menu screens, too).
I'm getting pretty concerned that we won't actually be getting a new vocal theme this time around. In terms of console games, we've had an opening "theme song" dating all the way back to the PS1 era, and all with vocals since
Final Bout. Some games here and there may have recycled older songs (the first
DBZ/Budokai,
Sparking! and
Sparking! NEO, for example)... but they've always been there in some capacity.
Anyone else have any random thoughts or concerns about this stuff? Or is it just me who's year-after-year waiting to toss my money at Kageyama? Then again, we're not even talking about a CD single release, and I'm no longer even worrying that Kageyama has been shoved aside with all the
Kai hotness -- we're talking about a song existing for the game
at all.